Keith’s note: The Technical Capabilities Assessment Team has decided to shut down the reduced flight program at JSC and transfer what is left of it to AFRC. JSC Center Director Ochoa has been directed to shut things down by mid-summer and mothball their C-9. Henceforth NASA will depend on one source: ZeroG. No real reason is given – and AFRC admits that it does not have the staff to run […]

NASA Award: Demolish Shuttle Mate Demate Device “Contracting Office Address – NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center, Code A, P.O. Box 273, Edwards, CA 93523-0273 Description – In accordance with this contract, the contractor shall furnish all materials, labor, equipment and facilities, except as specified herein to be furnished by the Government, and shall do all that which is necessary or incedental to the satisfactory and timely performance of the project entitled, […]

NASA Honors Astronaut Neil Armstrong with Center Renaming “Two generations of aerospace engineering excellence will come together March 1 when NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., is redesignated NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.  The agency’s center of excellence for atmospheric flight research is being renamed in honor of the late Neil A. Armstrong, a former research test pilot at the center and the first man to step on […]